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Oct 22, 2021 · It does not help that it's called "Invasion" but almost nothing happens for an undue length of time. People disappear. People talk about their disappearance. Kids get nosebleeds. Soldiers disappear. People get upset. Someone's house starts shaking. It's slow, really slow. And that would also be fine if that was just Episode 1, but Invasion ...
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Dec 11, 2021 · Rather than standing on its own, the initial season of Invasion feels like the first chapter of a much grander science fiction epic. Invasion gets off to a slow start. Unlike most stories about an ...
Aug 23, 2023 · Here they split with many of the group choosing to stay with the truck while Caspar, his friend Jamila (India Brown), and the former lead-bully continue on. It’s on their homeward trek that they ...
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By Samantha Nelson
Posted: Oct 22, 2021 2:00 pm
Invasion's first three episodes -- "Love of My Life," "The Probe," and "Goodbye, Teacher!" -- are now streaming on Apple TV+. Below is a spoiler-free review.
Apple TV+’s Invasion is a wildly ambitious series, described by co-creator Simon Kinberg as a fusion between the Oscar-winning, globe-spanning political drama Babel and H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds. While the effort is admirable, the pieces don’t quite fit together well enough in the show’s slow-moving three-episode premiere.
The first episode, “Love of My Life” is the roughest part of the premiere, focused mostly on Jim Bell Tyson (Sam Neill), a small-town sheriff on the cusp of retiring looking to solve one last case to bring meaning to his life and career. It feels like the writers are striving for the mood of No Country for Old Men, with an aging lawman confronting evil he’s largely powerless to fight, but juxtaposing an extraterrestrial mystery atop scenes of white supremacist meth dealers and Neill’s mournful monologues about faith feels terribly forced. That plot pauses with a cliffhanger at the end of episode one, with Neill not reappearing in the following two episodes, and the show is stronger for it.
Also too ponderous is the show’s pair of big relationship dramas. One focuses on Mitsuki Yamato (Shioli Kutsuna), a Japanese aerospace technician having an affair with an astronaut about to leave Earth for the International Space Station. It has the feel of a moody indie flick, filled with mooning, brooding, and poor coping mechanisms. Considering how the space narrative feels like it has the most potential to push the plot along, it’s frustrating to watch Mitsuki spend so much time paralyzed by her emotions, even if those feelings are understandable. At least when she snaps into action, the show comes into focus, transforming into a compelling thriller.
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The other rocky love story surrounds Aneesha Malik (Golshifteh Farahani), a Syrian refugee living in America with her pathetic husband Ahmed (Firas Nassar) and their young kids. Their plot feels like part of the recent wave of dramas like Marriage Story and Scenes from a Marriage, chronicling the melodramatic disintegration of a relationship where the messy emotions all have to be put aside to protect the children from descending chaos.
Invasion seeks to redefine the alien invasion genre, moving away from an action-packed, American-centric story to a deeper, global tale. Those looking to meet some scary aliens might be frustrated by the slice-of-life drama that dominates the premiere, but the show seems to be improving over time, making it worth sticking around to see how all the ...
Aug 14, 2023 · The Invasion ending explained the end of the invading alien's first cycle of aggression, with the main human's character arcs mirroring this death and rebirth. The Invasion season 1 ending sees the alien menace defeated as their crafts fall from the sky and the alien lifeforms droppinh dead. It is, in fact, Caspar who single-handedly stopped ...
Oct 22, 2021 · Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. Season One of Invasion premiered on October 22, 2021, and concluded on December 10, 2021, with a total of 10 episodes. An alien invasion is seen through the different perspectives of various people on different continents across the world. Golshifteh Farahani as Aneesha Malik ...
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Oct 22, 2021 · 2. Summary. There’s probably an ambitious and interesting sci-fi story in here somewhere, but the question is how many people will be able to put up with its glacial pacing and early over-reliance on genre tropes to find out. This review of Invasion Season 1 is spoiler-free. These days, thanks to the seismically successful approach of Netflix ...
